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TIL Steve McQueen was supposed to attend the dinner party where the Manson family murdered Sharon Tate and others, but skipped it after he "ran into a chickie and decided to go off with her instead"

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a5Qy TIL that Margaret Thatcher said in 1970 “There will not be a woman prime minister in my lifetime - the male population is too prejudiced.” She became prime minister of the UK in 1979.
BgQnr TIL that Romanian communist-era dictator Ceaușescu planned to demolish up to half of Romanian villages to "systemize" and fully socialize rural life. However, he was executed shortly after the first phase started. Plan was then canceled.
QJGnM TIL of El Mahrousa, the official presidential Super-Yacht of Egypt. It was built in 1863 by English engineers, it's the oldest yet still the 9th largest Yacht in the world. It has carried three Egyptian leaders into exile, ended a dynasty, and carried the Egyptian delegation to the 1979 peace talks
JYpaQ TIL that the French King, Lois XIV owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep in his own bed, no matter where he traveled.
9bXr TIL that Richard Pryor had it rough growing up: He was molested at the age of six by a teenage neighbor, and later by a neighborhood preacher. His mother was a prostitute who abandoned him when he was ten years old, after which he was raised in his grandmother’s brothel.